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  • Let’s Nuke the Environmentalists

    10/28/2009 9:19:22 AM PDT · by IbJensen · 15 replies · 664+ views
    Personal Liberty Digest ^ | 10/28/2009 | John Myers
    Greenpeace is running rampant across Alberta’s oil sands. In the past few weeks, 37 activists have been arrested in a spate of incidents targeting North America’s most important energy resource. The most recent occurred on Oct. 5 when 19 activists stormed an upgrader in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta. They tied themselves to equipment which is used to transform heavy oil into gasoline. The protesters unfurled banners reading “Climate Crime” and “Climate SOS” to draw attention to an industry they say is killing the planet. In September, two-dozen Greenpeace commandoes kayaked down the Athabasca River to intercept a Suncor bridge where conveyor...
  • Democrats' hidden gas tax

    10/21/2009 1:42:59 AM PDT · by Grumpybutt · 27 replies · 1,416+ views
    The Washington Times ^ | 10/21/09 | Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchisen & Sen. Christopher S. Bond
    There's something the Democratic lawmakers who are pushing cap-and-trade legislation don't want the public to know. The controversial climate-change legislation winding its way through Congress will impose a massive new national gas tax on the American people. We discovered this by analyzing what the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill would do to gas prices and what Americans spend on gasoline, diesel and jet fuels. We found that cap-and-trade legislation will levy a $3.6 trillion gas-tax increase that will impact every American and important segments of our economy. Americans travel more than 200 million vehicle miles each month, and annually we spend nearly...
  • Environmental concerns delay solar projects in California desert

    10/19/2009 12:57:30 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 26 replies · 957+ views
    LA Times ^ | 10/19/09 | Louis Sahagun
    Reporting from El Centro, Calif. - Across the desert flatlands of southeastern California, dozens of companies have flooded federal offices with applications to place solar mirrors on more than a million acres of public land. But just as some of those projects appear headed toward fruition, environmental hurdles threaten to jeopardize efforts to further tap the region's renewable energy potential. The development of solar-power facilities in the desert has been a top priority of the Obama administration as it seeks to ease the nation's dependence on fossil fuels and curb global warming. In addition, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has urged that...
  • E.P.A. Moves to Curtail Greenhouse Gas Emissions

    09/30/2009 2:50:59 PM PDT · by reaganaut1 · 89 replies · 3,398+ views
    New York Times ^ | September 30, 2009 | John M. Broder
    The Environmental Protection Agency announced a proposed rule Wednesday to begin regulating greenhouse gas emissions from thousands of power plants and large industrial facilities. The proposed rule would require polluters to install the best available technology to capture greenhouse gases whenever a new plant is opened or significantly changed. The rule applies to any industrial plant that emits at least 25,000 tons of greenhouse gases a year. When the rule is final, the EPA said operators of as many 14,000 sources of pollution would have to get additional permits. The proposal, long anticipated and highly controversial, marks the first government...
  • Boxer revels in drive to cut carbon pollution

    10/01/2009 7:55:42 AM PDT · by SmithL · 43 replies · 1,739+ views
    Sacramento Bee ^ | 10/1/9 | Rob Hotakainen
    WASHINGTON � Sen. Barbara Boxer left little doubt she was having a particularly good time Wednesday. Wearing sunglasses, California's junior Democratic senator made her way to a stage on the east lawn of the Capitol, then stood in front of a huge U.S. flag and waved to a throng of supporters as U2's "It's a Beautiful Day" roared through the loudspeakers. "What a great day!" enthused the senator. "This is like giving birth again!" Boxer was celebrating her alliance with Massachusetts Democratic Sen. John Kerry to introduce a long-awaited bill that, if approved, could land her in the history books....
  • On Leno’s Show, Limbaugh Runs Car Over Al Gore - Then Backs Up and Does It Again

    09/25/2009 3:36:55 AM PDT · by chuck_the_tv_out · 31 replies · 2,989+ views
    Newsbusters ^ | September 24, 2009 - 23:59 | Brent Baker
    Taking the “Green Car Challenge” on Thursday night’s Jay Leno Show, a svelte Rush Limbaugh -- declining to don a helmet -- hopped into the electric Ford Focus on Leno’s track behind his NBC studio in Burbank, but instead of driving around the hanging cut outs of Al Gore and Ed Begley Jr., Limbaugh ran right into them. Then, to Leno’s cries of “Oh, c’mon!”, a delighted Limbaugh accepted the penalty against his time score and stopped, backed up and smashed into them again. Limbaugh’s maneuvering ensured a lower score (greater time) than the three previous contestants since Leno’s show...
  • Kill Republicans Save the World

    09/24/2009 7:57:49 AM PDT · by Alaphiah123 · 1 replies · 248+ views
    Creating Orwellian Worldview ^ | 9/24/09 | alaphiah
    Like a bad episode of Sci-fi TV serial Heroes, “Kill the Cheerleader Save the World” Global warming fanatics like Jonathan Freedland still intend to advance their Sci-fi theories of anthropogenic global warming in spite of the facts. (see story)and (here) The facts are that their discredited theories that CO2 emissions are the cause of globing warming are fundamentally wrong. So they know that the only way to completely rid themselves of any real rational debate and keep the Al Gore hysteria of global impeding doom alive is to kill all Republicans to save the World. Or as Freedland puts it,...
  • Greenland, Antarctic Ice 'in Runaway Melt Mode'

    09/23/2009 6:51:13 PM PDT · by PilotDave · 25 replies · 1,671+ views
    Fox news - AP ^ | Wednesday, September 23, 2009 | Staff
    New satellite information shows that ice sheets in Greenland and western Antarctica continue to shrink faster than scientists thought and in some places are already in runaway melt mode. British scientists for the first time calculated changes in the height of the vulnerable but massive ice sheets and found them especially worse at their edges. That is where warmer water eats away from below. In some parts of Antarctica, ice sheets have been losing 30 feet a year in thickness since 2003, according to a paper published online Thursday in the journal Nature.
  • U.S. Determined to Act on Climate, Despite 'Doubts and Difficulties'

    09/22/2009 9:08:51 AM PDT · by GOP_Lady · 13 replies · 563+ views
    The Wall Street Journal ^ | 09-22-09 | HENRY J. PULIZZI
    WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama acknowledged the "doubts and difficulties" clouding progress on climate change in Congress, but said the U.S. is determined to tackle global warming at a year-end summit in Copenhagen. "We understand the gravity of the climate threat. We are determined to act," Mr. Obama told a United Nations meeting on climate change in New York. "And we will meet our responsibility to future generations."
  • Green groups open 'climate war room'

    09/21/2009 1:20:43 PM PDT · by SeattleBruce · 43 replies · 1,847+ views
    Politico ^ | 9/21/2009 | MIKE ALLEN & JIM VANDEHEI
    The cap-and-trade movement, spooked by the pounding health care reform took over the August break, is scrambling to persuade nervous Democrats they won’t suffer politically for taking another tough vote this year. “When you get your butt kicked, like we did [after the House energy vote], it focuses the mind,” said Steve Cochran, director of the Environmental Defense Fund’s National Climate Campaign. “We found out that this is not something to hide from but something to lean on — even in places where coal is king and Blue Dogs were perceived to be running for cover.” Climate bill supporters say...
  • The Earth Is Warming? Adjust the Thermostat

    09/18/2009 9:21:11 AM PDT · by Lorianne · 12 replies · 275+ views
    New York Times ^ | August 10, 2009 | John Tierney
    Originally called geoengineering, this approach used to be dismissed as science fiction fantasies: cooling the planet with sun-blocking particles or shades; tinkering with clouds to make them more reflective; removing vast quantities of carbon from the atmosphere. climate engineering and it is looking more practical. Several recent reviews of these ideas conclude that cooling the planet would be technically feasible and economically affordable. There are still plenty of skeptics, but even they have started calling for more research into climate engineering. The skeptics understandably fear the unintended consequences of tampering with the planet’s thermostat, but they also fear the possibility...
  • Obama Admin: Cap And Trade Could Cost Families $1,761 A Year

    09/16/2009 6:24:25 AM PDT · by TheNewPundit · 38 replies · 1,767+ views
    cbs ^ | 9/15/2009 | Declan McCullagh
    The Obama administration has privately concluded that a cap and trade law would cost American taxpayers up to $200 billion a year, the equivalent of hiking personal income taxes by about 15 percent. A previously unreleased analysis prepared by the U.S. Department of Treasury says the total in new taxes would be between $100 billion to $200 billion a year. At the upper end of the administration's estimate, the cost per American household would be an extra $1,761 a year.
  • Schwarzenegger to veto renewable energy bills (and issue an executive order with the same mandate)

    09/13/2009 8:08:45 PM PDT · by reaganaut1 · 9 replies · 836+ views
    Associated Press ^ | September 12, 2009 | Juliet Williams
    SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office said Saturday that he would veto legislation requiring a third of California's energy to come from renewable sources by 2020, choosing instead to mandate the change through an executive order. The Democratic bills that passed the state Legislature just before the end of the legislative session Friday would have set up the most aggressive renewable energy standards in the nation. But they also sought to limit the amount of energy from sources such as wind, solar and geothermal that could come from out-of-state. Schwarzenegger and some energy producers said the legislation would set...
  • Confirmed: global warming zealots hate people

    09/09/2009 9:33:59 AM PDT · by Schnucki · 8 replies · 515+ views
    Telegraph Blogs (U.K.) ^ | September 9, 2009 | Janet Daley
    I’ve always suspected this. There can be only one logical conclusion to the anthropogenic global warming campaign: eliminate human beings. Or, at least, reduce to a minimum their number on the planet. Have you had the sneaking suspicion that climate change activists were seeking to suppress every possible life-enhancing human activity from a long hot bath to a long-haul flight to an exotic destination? Have you ever had the sense that they would actually prefer it if you just ceased to occupy space on the earth, using up - as you do - its precious resources to facilitate your own...
  • Maine Envirowackos rally for green jobs, more poverty and unemployment

    09/04/2009 9:27:45 AM PDT · by mainestategop · 7 replies · 565+ views
    Mainestategop ^ | 9/4/09 | MainestateGOP
    Yesterday at monument square in Portland, liberal envirowackos from all over Maine rallied to shrill for lower standards of living for Maine residents in the name of the greenhouse myth, not to mention helping the government grow bigger and take away more of our hard earned money. The rally, which featured city council members, teamsters, America hating communists and others also circulated petitions calling for green energy in Maine, cap and trade and green jobs. The truth is that Maine is already strangled by environmental regulations against the economy. WE told you a year ago about a plan to build...
  • How GE’s green lobbying is killing U.S. factory jobs

    08/28/2009 1:50:39 AM PDT · by kingattax · 22 replies · 942+ views
    San Francisco Examiner ^ | August 28, 2009 | Timothy P. Carney
    ‘Government did us in,” says Dwayne Madigan, whose job will terminate when General Electric closes one its factory next July. Madigan makes a product that will soon be illegal to sell in the U.S.: a regular incandescent bulb. Two years ago, his employer, GE, lobbied in favor of the law that will outlaw the bulbs. Madigan’s colleagues, waiting for their evening shift to begin, all know that GE is replacing the incandescent for now with compact fluorescents bulbs, which GE manufactures in China. Last month, GE announced it will close the Winchester Bulb Plant 80 miles west of Washington, D.C.,...
  • US unions, green groups to stump for climate change bill

    08/18/2009 2:23:28 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 18 replies · 939+ views
    AFP on Yahoo ^ | 8/18 | af
    WASHINGTON (AFP) – US labor unions and environmental groups on Tuesday announced plans for a nationwide campaign to boost support for legislation to promote "clean energy" and battle climate change. The 'Made In America' Jobs Tour will open Thursday in Ohio -- a critical political battleground in US presidential elections -- and visit 50 sites in 22 US states, including other major toss-ups, the coalition said in a statement. Leaders of the United Steelworkers, Service Employees International Union, Utility Workers Union of America were to join heads of major US environmental groups on a conference call Wednesday to formally launch...
  • Weather records are a state secret

    08/10/2009 8:51:15 AM PDT · by AKSurprise · 15 replies · 1,892+ views
    UK Telegraph ^ | 08/01/09 | Christopher Booker
    "One cause of the blunders that have made the Met Office a laughing stock is less widely appreciated, however. It is that the multi-million pound computer it uses to assist its short-term forecasting for Britain is also one of the four main official sources of data used by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to predict global warming. In this respect the IPCC's computer models have proved just as wrong in predicting global temperatures as the Met Office has been in forecasting those mild winters and heatwave summers." "In recent months, in fact, a curious little drama has...
  • Will Russia Drill Off Florida's Coast?

    08/05/2009 5:13:29 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 43 replies · 2,788+ views
    IBD Editorials ^ | August 5, 2009 | INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Staff
    Energy: As Russian attack submarines patrol our eastern seaboard, Moscow signs a deal to help Castro's Cuba drill for oil off the Florida coast. In Moscow and Havana, the cry is "Drill, Comrade, Drill!"Two Russian nuclear attack submarines have taken up positions along our East Coast in recent days, another sign of renewed assertiveness by the former communist giant. The move comes as Moscow inks a deal with the communist relic of Cuba to drill for oil we refuse to go after. The submarines are of the Akula class, a counterpart to the Los Angeles class attack subs of the...
  • HR 2749: Food Safety’s Scorched Earth Policy

    07/23/2009 5:11:36 AM PDT · by FromLori · 69 replies · 2,106+ views
    Farm Wars ^ | 7/22/09
    HR 2749 is being rushed through Congress, and the house may look to suspend the rules and fast track the bill at Obama’s request. Just what can we expect from this legislation? A lot more of the following: Dick Peixoto planted hedges of fennel and flowering cilantro around his organic vegetable fields in the Pajaro Valley near Watsonville to harbor beneficial insects, an alternative to pesticides. He has since ripped out such plants in the name of food safety, because his big customers demand sterile buffers around his crops. No vegetation. No water. No wildlife of any kind. “I was...
  • Obama’s latest“In Your Face”: “Green Czar” admits he’s a Communist with arrest record

    07/14/2009 6:08:53 AM PDT · by jmaroneps37 · 77 replies · 4,316+ views
    The Collins Report ^ | July 14, 2009 | Kevin "Coach" Collins
    This is really frightening. We warned Americans Barack Obama is a Marxist who would govern through dangerous people. Obama’s new Czar, for “Green Jobs” Anthony “Van” Jones freely admits he’s a proud San Francisco Communist with an arrest record. Because the media has no integrity and works against us, except for Fox News, we have heard little or nothing about this. The amount of damage this confirmed member of Obama’s secret “cabinet” will do as “Green Czar” is frightening to the core. With his signature this radical unelected party apparatchik will be able to crush America’s economy to help Obama’s...
  • UK seeks climate change fund for world's poor (Global Wealth Redistribution)

    06/26/2009 12:13:21 PM PDT · by AKSurprise · 15 replies · 796+ views
    "Wealthy nations should establish a fund that could spend $100 billion a year helping the world's poorest countries to tackle climate change, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Friday. Calling for the fund to be in place by 2020, Brown said that wealthier nations would be able to raise funds through the expansion of international carbon trading market - in which carbon reductions achieved by one company can be sold to another - and existing development aid. Environment ministers from industrialized nations first discussed proposals for the creation of such a fund at a conference in Denmark last month. Campaigners...
  • Vote Set on House Climate Bill (Waxman-Markey, this Friday)

    06/23/2009 10:24:26 PM PDT · by flattorney · 47 replies · 5,043+ views
    Washington Post ^ | June 24, 2009 | Steven Mufson
    ABSTRACT: Democratic leaders in the House have scheduled a Friday vote on a climate change bill that would establish a complex cap-and-trade system to limit the nation's greenhouse gas emissions, a priority for President Obama. The House Rules Committee unveiled the latest version of the bill, which weighs in at 1,201 pages. It features new items such as $7.5 billion in "green bonds" for a new federal financing agency called the Clean Energy Deployment Administration, extra emission allowances for politically powerful rural electric cooperatives, greater flexibility for states that want to use free allowances for mass transit, and tweaks benefiting...
  • Coal lobby fights back on climate bill (Stealth Energy Tax)

    06/20/2009 2:05:09 PM PDT · by AKSurprise · 5 replies · 513+ views
    The Hill ^ | 06/18/09 | Jim Snyder
    The coal industry is pushing back against a climate change bill that would likely curb coal use by circulating a map that shows which states would see their electric bills increase the most under the legislation. But supporters of the bill say the industry’s figures are off the mark and don’t factor in ways the bill will offset rising energy costs or the jobs that it will create. Lobbying has intensified, with Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) pressing for a floor vote next week. Waxman reported progress on Thursday in talks with Democrats from rural states who...
  • Share Study: Tighter Fuel Economy Standards Will Boost New England Economy

    06/08/2009 2:55:47 PM PDT · by pissant · 22 replies · 653+ views
    MBPN ^ | 6/8/09 | Some Moron
    A new study indicates that new fuel economy standards announced last month by President Barack Obama will give New England's economy a $10 billion dollar boost over the next 15 years. The new standards will increase the average mileage for light-duty vehicles from 25.4 to 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016. That will save enough fuel to free up billions of dollars to reinvestment back into the local and regional economy, say researchers from the University of New Hampshire's Carbon Solutions New England. CSNE Director Cameron Wake, the report's author, says light-duty motor vehicles, which include passenger cars, light trucks,...
  • Austin, Texas Requires Green Audit for Real Estate or Face Criminal Charges

    06/04/2009 6:26:50 AM PDT · by Rufus2007 · 74 replies · 2,352+ views
    NewsBusters ^ | June 4, 2009 | Jeff Poor
    The government is continuing to encroach on freedoms more and more in the name of climate change. Case in point: An ordinance that went into effect June 1 stating if you sell your home in Austin, Texas and you fail to get a clean energy "green" audit, you will likely face criminal charges. According to an ordinance passed by the Austin City Council passed in November 2008, any home 10 years or older will require an "Energy Conservation Audit. Failure to comply - criminal charges as explained by the local community-owned electric utility: ...more (w/video)...
  • Making a Mockery of Being Green ("The Goode Family")

    05/26/2009 10:24:04 AM PDT · by markomalley · 25 replies · 1,551+ views
    WSJ ^ | 5/22/2009 | JAMIN BROPHY-WARREN
    Director Mike Judge’s new animated television series “The Goode Family” is a send-up of a clan of environmentalists who live by the words “What would Al Gore do?” Gerald and Helen Goode want nothing more than to minimize their carbon footprint. They feed their dog, Che, only veggies (much to the pet’s dismay) and Mr. Goode dutifully separates sheets of toilet paper when his wife accidentally buys two-ply. And, of course, the family drives a hybrid. On Wednesday at 9 p.m., “The Goode Family” will have its premiere on ABC and become the first animated series on the network’s prime-time...
  • The Goode Family (new animated sitcom skewers liberals)

    05/22/2009 5:23:30 PM PDT · by Pharmboy · 55 replies · 2,024+ views
    ABC Television ^ | May 22, 2009 | Anon
    This will frost their behinds...the holier than thou libtards will not be able to deal with being laughed at. The Goode family's motto is "What would Al Gore Do?" They wanted to adopt an African child but wound up with a white kid from South Africa. Their dog is forced to be a vegan like them, but eats all the pets in the neighborhood. It looks pretty funny. The creator is Mike Judge of Beavis and Butt-Head fame. Check out the clips on the site...the pilot will be broadcast on May 27.
  • The America Hating Kids Enviro Video Coming Soon to Your School

    05/12/2009 6:33:35 AM PDT · by Mobile Vulgus · 9 replies · 757+ views
    Publius' Forum ^ | 5/13/09 | Warner Todd Huston
    A new propaganda video created by an extreme environmental activist is making its way into America's classrooms and The New York Times loves the whole idea. Enviro obsessive Annie Leonard, Greenpeace member and activist, has created a 20 minute video filled with anti-capitalist, anti-American propaganda to encourage kids to eschew "stuff," calling the presentation "The Story of Stuff." Leonard's propaganda piece is so anti-American she even begins her video by saying that her "friends" say she should describe the United States by using the symbol of a military tank because "it's true in many countries and increasingly in our own."...
  • The Simple Life? No Thanks: American resent having to downsize due to the economy

    05/01/2009 9:56:58 AM PDT · by jimbo123 · 44 replies · 1,316+ views
    Adweek ^ | 5/1/09 | Mark Dolliver
    Even if economists are correct in detecting "green shoots" in the economy, a new survey shows the cumulative effect of the recession still growing in its impact on U.S. households. And, with all due respect to the joys of frugality, many people resent having had to downsize their lifestyles.
  • ‘Greed?’: Gore Gets Testy When Grilled About Investments in Green Companies (video)

    04/25/2009 11:00:41 AM PDT · by Free ThinkerNY · 43 replies · 1,990+ views
    C-SPAN ^ | April 25, 2009
    "You don't know me."
  • Electricity providers say plan would raise prices

    04/23/2009 10:28:03 AM PDT · by Free ThinkerNY · 8 replies · 487+ views
    Associated Press ^ | April 23, 2009 | DINA CAPPIELLO
    WASHINGTON (AP) - Consumers will face higher electricity prices if Congress passes a global warming bill without giving utilities some allowances to emit greenhouse gases, electricity providers warned Thursday. "Revenues associated with pricing greenhouse gases would be returned to the very consumers who would be at risk for paying higher energy prices," said Richard Morgan, who leads the District of Columbia's Public Service Commission.
  • Appeals court cancels offshore drilling program

    04/17/2009 10:15:53 AM PDT · by Free ThinkerNY · 35 replies · 1,682+ views
    Associated Press ^ | April 17, 2009 | NEDRA PICKLER
    WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the Bush administration did not properly study the environmental impact of expanding oil and gas drilling off the Alaska coast and canceled a program to find new reserves. A three-judge panel in Washington found that the Bush-era Interior Department failed to consider the effect on the environment and marine life before it began the process in August 2005 to expand an oil and gas leasing program in the Beaufort, Bering, and Chukchi seas. The appeals court ordered the department, now run by President Barack Obama's appointee Ken Salazar, to analyze...
  • Envirofascist law turns Spokane residents into bootleggers

    03/30/2009 9:24:45 AM PDT · by soccermom · 35 replies · 911+ views
    AP in Belleville News Democrat ^ | March 28, 2009 | soccermom
    SPOKANE, Wash. -- The quest for squeaky-clean dishes has turned some law-abiding people in Spokane into dishwater-detergent smugglers. They are bringing Cascade or Electrasol in from out of state because the eco-friendly varieties required under Washington state law don't work as well. Spokane County became the launch pad last July for the nation's strictest ban on dishwasher detergent made with phosphates, a measure aimed at reducing water pollution. The ban will be expanded statewide in July 2010, the same time similar laws take effect in several other states. But it's not easy to get sparkling dishes when you go green....
  • U.N. 'Climate Change' Plan Would Likely Shift Trillions to Form New World Economy

    A United Nations document on "climate change" that will be distributed to a major environmental conclave next week envisions a huge reordering of the world economy, likely involving trillions of dollars in wealth transfer, millions of job losses and gains, new taxes, industrial relocations, new tariffs and subsidies, and complicated payments for greenhouse gas abatement schemes and carbon taxes — all under the supervision of the world body.
  • U.N.'s Participation in Earth Hour Is Full of Hot Air, Critics Say (UN will save $102.00)

    03/27/2009 3:43:14 PM PDT · by Jean S · 61 replies · 3,368+ views
    FoxNews.com ^ | 3/27/09 | Joshua Rhett Miller
    In what it's calling a "vote for the future of planet Earth," the World Wildlife Fund wants every light in the world to go dark for one hour on Saturday as a symbolic gesture to call for action on climate change.It's called Earth Hour — and among the places where the lights will go out are the Eiffel Tower, the Bird's Nest Stadium in Beijing, the Pyramids of Giza and Niagara Falls.And, for the first time in the event's three-year existence, the New York headquarters of the United Nations will also go dark, a move officials say will save $102,...
  • Madness, from D.C. to Denver (NOW, we can take over Agriculture - or at least TAX IT TO DEATH)

    03/13/2009 9:15:06 AM PDT · by jessduntno · 63 replies · 1,961+ views
    summit daily ^ | March 10 | Liddick
    Have we all suddenly gone mad? Have our wits suddenly deserted us? Has common sense been completely routed from our lives? The indications are not good. In a little-noticed verdict last week, a U.S. District Court of Appeals has decided that the Clean Air Act requires the Environmental Protection Agency to act against farmers who endanger public health by kicking up dust in the course of their business. Expect anti-dust regulations and fines to follow. For those unfamiliar with pastoral activities, allow me to enlighten: I grew up on a farm, and can personally attest that most types of agriculture...
  • Video: Environmentalists Target Toilet Paper

    03/03/2009 8:30:15 AM PST · by careyb · 25 replies · 799+ views
    Fox News ^ | 3/3/09 | Fox News
    Megyn Kelly is way too easy on this guy.
  • Caption these unemployed libtards (aka 'Youth Activists')

    03/03/2009 6:18:18 AM PST · by redstates4ever · 42 replies · 1,314+ views
    me ^ | 3/3/09 | me
  • Media Credibility, Not Ice Caps, In Meltdown

    02/23/2009 8:32:28 AM PST · by neverdem · 43 replies · 1,918+ views
    American Thinker ^ | February 23, 2009 | Peter C Glover
    Eco-warriors and media hype aside, the fact is, as we head into 2009, that the world's ice mass has been expanding not contracting. Which will surprise evening news junkies fed a diet of polar bears floating about on ice floes and snow shelves falling into the oceans. But if a whole series of reports on ice growth in the Arctic, the Antarctic and among glaciers are right, then it is truth in the mainstream media (MSM) that's in meltdown not the polar ice caps. The problem for the MSM is that it long ago nailed its colors to the climate...
  • Hold Your Breath - Obama Set to Regulate Carbon Dioxide

    02/22/2009 8:56:52 AM PST · by nysuperdoodle · 11 replies · 708+ views
    It's hard to imagine a rationale that would have the government declare each and every person in America a danger to the environment, but that's exactly what Obama's new Global Warming Czar, Carol Browner, just did...
  • Green ideology ‘as deadly as Communism’

    02/10/2009 6:44:55 AM PST · by GonzoII · 18 replies · 578+ views
    catholicherald.co.uk ^ | 6 February 2009 | Simon Caldwell
    A Catholic charity has launched a scathing attack on the Green movement, describing the excesses of environmentalism as an ideology every bit as dangerous as Communism. While global warming should be a "crucial issue" for the Church, worshippers must be deeply sceptical about many of the claims made by the environmentalist lobby, a new booklet published by the bishops of England and Wales has said. Written by Russell Sparkes, an expert in ethical investments, it argues that there is a proven tendency among some "Deep Green" activists to exaggerate the threat of global warming to vindicate their calls for government...
  • Ashley Judd, Sarah Palin at odds over aerial wolf hunt

    02/07/2009 2:21:10 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 47 replies · 1,347+ views
    CNN ^ | February 7, 2009
    Actress Ashley Judd says a wolf management program backed by Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is "incredibly savage ... it's not right, it's not appropriate, it makes no sense on any level." Appearing on CNN's "Larry King Live," Judd repeated her criticism of a program that allows hunters firing from aircraft to shoot wolves to thin the numbers of the animals. Judd recently appeared in a video for the Washington-based Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund, which also opposes the Palin-backed aerial hunting program. Referring to the former Republican vice presidential candidate by name in the video, Judd says that Palin is...
  • Crowds leave cups, gloves _ even flags _ on Mall

    01/20/2009 3:37:36 PM PST · by 11th_VA · 71 replies · 3,425+ views
    The Examiner ^ | 20 January 2009
    WASHINGTON (Map, News) - Inaugural revelers are lucky they didn't get fined for littering. As crowds cleared the city Tuesday, their trash covered the National Mall and Washington Monument grounds after President Barack Obama's inauguration. They left behind plastic bottles, newspapers, food wrappers, gloves and even American flags they had been waving. Trash bins overflowed with items people tossed. Twenty-one-year-old Laura Wiesner of Youngstown, Ohio, was on the cluttered Mall near the Smithsonian's American History Museum. She says people's quick exit - and failure to pick up after themselves - was a stark contrast to how grand the event had...
  • Petition to save CFC inhalers (New ozone-friendly asthma medications don't work)

    05/30/2008 7:26:51 PM PDT · by AngieGal · 24 replies · 2,081+ views
    ipetitions.com & FDA ^ | 5/30/08 | AngieGal
    The following petition has 2,200 signatures. Also please file any complaints with the FDA (Medwatch Reporting Form). Here is the link. https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/medwatch/medwatch-online.htm Find the blue Begin button to the right to start. Text of petition: The FDA, in compliance with the Montreal Protocol, has banned the use of life-saving CFC propellant albuterol asthma rescue inhalers in order to help restore the ozone layer, even though it has been widely acknowledged that these CFC inhaler emissions are too trivial to harm the ozone layer: Leslie Hendeles, University of Florida Professor of Pharmacy and Pediatrics, has noted that CFC inhalers release negligible...
  • Solar Power Plant Construction Halted Due to Endangered Squirrel

    01/08/2009 11:57:21 AM PST · by Red Badger · 68 replies · 1,858+ views
    www.ecoenquirer.com ^ | 1-10-09 | Staff
    (Dry Desert, California) The unexpected discovery of a nest of red-cheeked squirrels amidst the huge, partially constructed MegaPyre Solar Power plant has halted construction, casting doubt on the viability of what has been considered to be the environmentalist's crown jewel of renewable power facilities. The 20 gigawatt plant was expected to provide electricity to much of southern California, and was only 6 months away from completion when the nest of squirrels, which are on the endangered species list, was found. Due to federal regulations regarding endangered species, moving the nest to another location is not permitted. The situation has confounded...
  • Oil slides 8 percent as OPEC cut seen too little (MSM wants higher oil)

    12/17/2008 12:33:23 PM PST · by rightinthemiddle · 72 replies · 1,741+ views
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices dropped to their lowest in more than four years on Wednesday after OPEC announced a record supply cut that dealers said may fail to fully offset slumping world energy demand. U.S. crude oil prices fell $3.54 to settle at $40.06 a barrel after dipping below $40 for first time since July 2004. London Brent fell $1.12 to $45.53. Oil prices have fallen more than $100 since July as a global financial crisis cuts into consumer and industrial fuel demand, and top forecasters are now predicting the first decline in world energy use since 1983....
  • The EPA Climate Change Kids Site (scary stuff)

    12/15/2008 10:35:53 AM PST · by rightinthemiddle · 29 replies · 696+ views
    (excerpted from one section) Greenhouse Effect ... Can We Change the Climate? It may seem hard to believe that people can actually change the Earth’s climate. But scientists think that the things people do that send greenhouse gases into the air are making our planet warmer. All use energy. But we need to use energy wisely if we want to slow global warming. Once, all climate changes occurred naturally. However, during the Industrial Revolution, we began altering our climate and environment through agricultural and industrial practices. The Industrial Revolution was a time when people began using machines to make life...
  • Science paves way for climate lawsuits (against oil & power companies)

    12/09/2008 1:58:18 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 24 replies · 686+ views
    The London Guardian ^ | December 9, 2008 | David Adam and Afua Hirsch
    People affected by worsening storms, heatwaves and floods could soon be able to sue the oil and power companies they blame for global warming, a leading climate expert has said. Myles Allen, a physicist at Oxford University, said a breakthrough that allows scientists to judge the role man-made climate change played in extreme weather events could see a rush to the courts over the next decade. He said: "We are starting to get to the point that when an adverse weather event occurs we can quantify how much more likely it was made by human activity. And people adversely affected...
  • UK: Stansted paralysed after climate change protesters break into airport and storm runway

    12/07/2008 11:45:29 PM PST · by Stoat · 41 replies · 1,438+ views
    Flights at Stansted were today grounded after at least 50 climate change protesters broke into the airport and occupied a runway.Activists cut through fencing and once on the landing strip chained themselves together and surrounded themselves with their security fencing to create a ‘fort’.Members of the Plane Stupid organisation, who are protesting against the proposed second runway, grounded flights after achieving their aim of closing the airstrip. The occupied runway had been due to reopen at 5am. Airlines were told to divert their planes in the skies and, although the airport terminal has been opened to passengers, no aircraft...